Chapter 11 The prince wants to farm
The new stewards were indeed experts, and the affairs of the house were quickly started, and after renting grain and storing it, they immediately began to raise the fence and renovate the courtyard, and the weather was gradually getting cooler. Zhao Ta also seemed to have come out of the 'shadow' of the assassination, and began to walk early every day at dawn, but now it was much more lively than before, seeing Xi carrying a bird cage, Feng Xi pulling a dog, followed by two guards with a straight face and pretending to be cool.
"Alas, if you have two more beautiful sisters by your side, you will be more like a playboy!" Zhao Ta shook his head and sighed, but there was no way, what happened last time scared everyone, there were less than three people, and Zhao Ta couldn't even go out of the yard.
Zhao Ta walked around the garden twice, and suddenly saw a few people busy in front of the rockery, turned his face and said to Jianxi: "Jianxi, is there really a big python, let's go and see!" ”
"Second master, don't squeeze the small ones anymore, now I still break out in a cold sweat when I think about it!" Jianxi said with a bitter face.
"Hehe, don't be afraid now, follow the guards!" Zhao Ta turned his head and said angrily at the two people who were a few steps behind him.
After speaking, he took the lead and walked over, and several people were putting something on the roof of a room, "Uncle Li, what are they doing here?" Zhao asked the new old gardener on the side.
"Second master, walk early!" Lao Li Tou hurriedly saluted and said, "The weather is cold, those delicate flowers and plants are afraid of freezing, and we are repairing the conservatory." ”
"Oh, then what do they press on the roof?" Zhao Ta pointed to the person above and asked again.
"Second master, that's Mingwa, you can let the sunlight in!" Lao Li Tou picked up a piece of Ming tile and showed it to Zhao Ta.
"Isn't this a fish scale?" Zhao Ta took it and looked at it carefully and said in surprise, this fish scale is the size of an adult's palm, as thin as a cicada's wings, although it is opaque, but it will never hinder the sunlight from shining through.
"By the way, this is the scale of a giant fish in the sea, it costs more than ten yuan, and it takes more than twenty yuan to cover the roof!" Lao Li Tou replied that he was a little distressed, and the money could be used for their family's old snacks for three months.
Zhao Ta ignored Lao Li's chatter, staring at the fish scales in his hand in a daze, there is no glass in this era, let alone plastic film, but they can think of using fish scales to make a greenhouse, it seems that people's wisdom is really infinite, "See, you go back and find the steward immediately, build a greenhouse for me in the garden, and I'll tell you how to do it in ten days!" He thought for a moment and said in a tone that could not be questioned.
"Second master, what do you think of again, what are you doing with this?" Although Jianxi is used to seeing the prince 'messing around', it is still difficult for him to understand this.
"Long-winded, I'm turning my head inside, do you care, let you do it, do it immediately!" Zhao Ta glared at him and said, shaking his hand and walking back.
"Alas, a child's casual words are dozens of dollars, a loser!" Lao Li Tou looked at Zhao Ta's back and shook his head and sighed.
"Hehe, Lao Litou, don't worry about it, they are not short of money, seeing that the dog is not, it is enough for your family to eat for five years!" The guard who walked behind said to Lao Li Tou with a wry smile, he also didn't have a good impression of Zhao Ta, a 'loser'.
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Building a greenhouse, although it is a temporary idea, but Zhao Ta still wants to find something to do for himself, it is difficult to endure the parasite-like days when he is full of food every day, and he has seen the dining room start to prepare winter vegetables two days ago, but they are all radish and cabbage and other things, these two things are eaten in different ways, and they will be eaten until the first batch of new dishes come down in early summer next year, and it will take several months, and he will be sick to his stomach when he thinks about it.
The efficiency of seeing the joy of doing things is really OK, five days later, an arched greenhouse covering an area of two acres has been completed, probably considering that the prince wants to use this as a playground, the whole greenhouse is built with good wood, spacious and bright, well ventilated, and a well was drilled in the middle according to the requirements of the prince, but no one understands what the prince wants to do.
The prince's next move still caused a sensation in the whole house, and the prince wants to farm! He is still engaged in the 'induction training' of more than a dozen small guys all found, each of them sent a shovel into the greenhouse to level the land, open the ditch and furrow, a few days under the command of Zhao Ta in the greenhouse has all changed, a large piece of land has been divided into a Longlong vegetable furrow, each long distance Zhao Ta has used steps, each line he asked to be straight and straight, looks neat like a huge chessboard. ,
Zhao Ta had been the director of the farm for several years in his previous life, and he was also an expert in farming, even if he was the most advanced soilless cultivation, he could also say one, two, three, and planting greenhouse vegetables was not a problem.
"Second master, are you going to farm?" Jianxi wiped the sweat on Zhao Ta's face with a hand towel and said.
"yes, can't you?" Zhao Ta asked with a smile.
"The prince's farming is all done by the people, how can you do these things as a prince?" Seeing that he said happily.
"Hehe, the prince is not three-headed and six-armed, the prince also has to eat and drink, shit and fart, everyone is the same person, my father has to plow every spring, why can't I!" Zhao Ta said nonchalantly.
"Second Master..." See joy and persuasion.
"Say no more!" Zhao Ta waved his hand to stop Jianxi's verbosity, and said to Fengxi, who was on the ground: "Fengxi, everyone has worked hard these days, you go to the kitchen and order, stew a big pot of mutton at noon today, I will eat it here, don't go back!" ”
"Okay, second master, I'll go and pass the word!" Feng Xi raised his sleeve and wiped the sweat on his face and said.
"Hey, wait a minute, I'll go with you." Seeing that Xi was now afraid of Zhao Ta in his heart, he didn't dare to disobey him, so he had to find an excuse to report Huang Jingchen.
"Everyone has been busy for a long time, so come and rest for a while!" Zhao Ta stood up and greeted the still busy little guys, hearing Zhao Ta's greeting, everyone gathered over, there were no chairs and benches here, everyone sat on the ground.
"What's your name and how old are you?" Zhao Ta asked a guy who looked the oldest, and he could see that everyone seemed to be headed by him.
"Back to the second master, the little one's name is Zhao Ren, and he is twelve this year!" The little guy replied respectfully.
"Oh, what about you?" Zhao Ta pointed to another and asked.
"Little Zhao Yi, it's eleven this year!"
"Little Zhao Li, it's twelve this year!"
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"Little Zhao Yong, eleven this year!" The little guys didn't need Zhao Ta's instructions anymore, they reported their names and ages one by one, and Zhao Ta also figured out that these little guys had changed their surnames, according to benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and shame, they had become their own domestic servants, and they shared weal and woe with themselves, that is, if they were raided in the future, none of them would be able to escape!
"Zhao Xin, I see that you are so small, can you have eleven, did you hide it?" Zhao Ta handed him a bowl of tea soup prepared for himself and asked with a smile.
"The little one is really eleven, but it's just that he looks small..." Zhao Xin explained that his little face was flushed, and tears were about to flow.
"Okay, I believe it, don't worry, drink the tea!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, he felt like he was back in the army in his previous life, he was chatting with a group of recruits who had just joined the army, he asked where this hometown was, asked if there were any brothers and sisters, and asked them how their lives were in the mansion now. The children didn't have any scheming, seeing that the prince was very kind, but they were just children like them, they all slowly let down their guard, and after a long time, a group of people had accepted the new friend of the prince.
chatting with these little guys, Zhao Ta felt very bad in his heart, these children (in his mind, these people are children) are all hard-working people, a few of them are their fathers who died in the expedition to Western Xia, lonely and helpless, so people took the opportunity to abduct and sell, some of them have a large family population, and they have to betray them if they can't go on.
At noon, Jianxi really got two large pots of stewed mutton according to the prince's instructions, these little guys may not have seen meat for a long time, their eyes are green, and they can't care about so many rules, and they gobble up the two big pots of meat. Zhao Ta also joined in the fun, holding a bowl and grabbing it with everyone, after the meal, everyone's feelings were pulled in a little, and they felt that the prince was a good person.
"Zhao Ren, you should prepare the vegetable furrow according to this standard this afternoon, otherwise there will be no meat to eat at night!" Zhao Ta made a demonstration, used a shovel to shoot the vegetable furrow with edges and corners, neatly and neatly, raised his head and said to everyone.
"Second master, don't worry, we will definitely get him done today!" Without waiting for Zhao Ren to answer, everyone had already agreed.
"Okay, if you fix the ground tonight, you will add meat to your dinner!" Zhao Ta said loudly, the enthusiasm of the little guys was mobilized again, and he nodded with a bitter face when he saw the joy, today he has already consulted Huang Jingchen, and the old guy gave a sentence, let him come as happy as the prince wants, as long as nothing happens.
In the next few days, Zhao Ta soaked in the greenhouse every day after breakfast, commanded everyone, watered the vegetable field again, sprinkled the horse manure pulled from the horse pen, and after two turns and two levels, sprinkled rapeseed, and began to raise seedlings, and at this time the weather was getting cooler and colder, and it was late autumn!
After a few autumn rains, the weather is getting cooler day by day, the vegetables in the greenhouse have sprouted, and they will be covered with straw curtains at night to keep warm. On the sixth day of October, it is advisable to relocate, the summer courtyard has been renovated a few days ago, and today Zhao Ta moved from the winter garden to the summer courtyard.